主持人：为什么美国在线服务公司会发布那么重大的事情？
2002年，仅用了两周协商，就与美国在线服务公司达成一项复杂的广告收入分享协议。
In 2002, it took just weeks to negotiate a complicated advertising revenue-sharing agreement with AOL.
去年，美国在线服务公司(AOL)要求美国NETSCAPE公司8%的市场覆盖率。
Last year, AOL acquired netscape for about 8 percent of AOL's market cap.
在外面的世界里有上千个服务供应商—从大的爸爸喜欢的美国在线服务公司到更小的本地服务商。
In the outside world there are literally thousands of service providers - from the big daddy's like AOL to smaller local providers.
毫无疑问这起并购案将是自2000年美国在线服务公司与时代华纳合并之后互联网行业最大的一起。
To be sure, the merger, which would be the internet industry's biggest since the ill-fated union of AOL and Time Warner in 2000, is far from a done deal.
如果微软真的吃掉了雅虎，它就有可能不断遭受严重的后收购消化不良症，正如美国在线服务与时代华纳合并后所遭遇的那样。
If Microsoft does manage to swallow Yahoo!, it risks a severe bout of post-merger indigestion, as happened with AOL and Time Warner.
只有在我们偶然听到类似美国在线服务公司发布的650,000名用户的搜索记录时，我们才得到提醒要关注我们的隐私或者说缺少隐私的问题。
It's only when we have slip ups like the AOL release of the search records of 650,000 users that we get a reminder about our privacy or lack of privacy.
时代华纳和美国在线服务公司在2001年的合并令他深感不安。因此，在这一灾难性并购成为现实后他即刻就离开了华纳公司，并及时将自己的股份变现。
Deeply apprehensive about the merger between time Warner and AOL in 2001, Mr Fernandes left Warner Music soon after the disastrous deal was finalised, cashing in his shares just in time.
“我们一天要从我们的服务器上清除数以百万计的垃圾邮件，”美国在线公司发言人尼古拉斯·格雷厄姆说。
"We zap millions and millions of spam mails a day from our servers," AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham said.
曾有个时候由于他们改变了服务定价，美国在线的服务器变得如此巨大，以至于一夜之间崩溃了，易趣也有规模问题。
At one point the AOL service got so large that it just crashed overnight when they changed pricing in the AOL service. EBay has scaling problems.
MSN和雅虎都想购买部分或全部的美国在线，这家时代华纳旗下规模庞大而身陷困境的因特网服务供应商。
MSN and Yahoo! Both wanted to buy some or all of AOL, a big, troubled internet-access company owned by Time Warner, a media conglomerate.
两家公司于2000年合并之时，美国在线的市值几乎比现在高100倍，且是美国最大的互联网服务提供商——其用户大多是被免费注册CD招揽来的拨号上网用户。
At the 2000 merger, the company's value was almost 100 times greater and AOL was America's largest Internet service provider, mostly dial-up accounts attracted by free CDs.
许多人的互联网冒险是始于美国在线（AOL），CompuServe联机数据库系统或者Prodigy联机服务系统，其提供的网上服务包括电子邮件、聊天室、讨论区等等。
Many people first ventured onto the internet from AOL,CompuServe and Prodigy, which were subscription-based online services that offered e-mail, chatrooms, discussion boards and so on.
一旦调制解调器发出刺耳的哔哔声，我就连上了美国在线(AOL)的服务器，我所有的朋友都会在那儿，做好了聊天的准备。
Once the modem's screeches, clucks and beeps ended and I was connected to AOL's servers, all my friends would be right there, ready to chat.
这意味着整个州现在可以用一个2400波特率拨号上网的美国在线账号来服务。
What this means it that the entire state can now be served by one 2400 baud dial up AOL account.
这意味着整个州现在可以用一个2400波特率拨号上网的美国在线账号来服务。
What this means it that the entire state can now be served by one 2400 baud dial up AOL account.
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